Quotes About Explanation

after all, our purpose in theoretical physics is not just to describe the world as we find it, but to explain — in terms of a few fundamental principles — why the world is the way it is.

What is most striking is not so much that Parmenides and Zeno were wrong as that they did not bother to explain why, if motion is impossible, things appear to move. Indeed, none of the early Greeks from Thales to Plato, in either Miletus or Abdera or Elea or Athens, ever took it on themselves to explain in detail how their theories about ultimate reality accounted for the appearances of things.

Officer, I know I was going faster than 55MPH, but I wasn't going to be on the road an hour.

You were the one that led them a merry dance. Now, I expect, they will want an explanation. I myself am waiting to hear it.

Daniel tried to explain to his sister what kind of creature Othman was. Verity supposed this was no more unlikely than all the other things she'd experienced over the last week or so.

That's the trouble with science. It has to explain beauty. It can't just let it be.

Any time I'm at a bar, I'm hoping somebody asks me about the offside rule. Give me four bottles of beer and one bottle of ketchup and I'm going to explain this to you so well because I love explaining soccer.

One has to explain to people that the EU in this form is the answer both to 1945 and to the 21st century, in a dramatically altered world with new heavyweights, and that Germany benefits from the continued integration of Europe in political, economic and societal ways. And, of course, that means the Germans will have to pay.

The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.

When you go, 'Listen, I didn't know. I didn't know the rules.' That works. That's a good, solid defense. One time.

Evolution is the idea some people have to explain life without God.

I think it's important to understand the concrete ways things work and to respect that. But some things shouldn't be explained, and you have to respect that, too.

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears.

Love don't have definition .It was just as it was since the world was created. People are just trying to explain it in vain.

To fall in love is a legendary action that doesn't need any explanation.

To fall in love is a legendry action that doesn't need any explanation.

Don't give explanation to anyone because who believes you, no need and who do not will not agree.

But as with any miracle left long enough in man's hands, more earthly explanations arise.

2. WHAT IS BEING SAID IN DETAIL, AND HOW?

What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.

Now rabbits eat their children - somebody ought to explain to them how it's only a complex.